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Episode R5 - Behistun Hat-Trick

“The Major constantly and indefatigably employed himself, from daylight
to dark, revising, restoring and adding to his former materials.This was a work of great irksomeness and
labour in the confined space he was compelled to stand in, with his body in
close proximity to the heated rock and under a broiling September sun.” – Felix
Jones, 1844

After the debacle of the First Anglo-Afghan War, Henry Creswicke
Rawlinson made two more excursions to Behistun.His attempts to copy the remaining inscriptions nearly cost him his
life.

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Hi, Scott. I've really enjoyed this podcast and the rediscovery series. I was wondering if you were planning on doing a series on the period after 500AD. I know you have a real life with other stuff going on but there's so much cool stuff and would love to hear your entertaining and informative take on it. Keep up the good work and thanks for making all my time recovering fascinating with your podcasts. Steve

Hi Steve, glad you're enjoying TAW! At this point, no definite plans for anything beyond the current miniseries. I expect I'll continue generating additional (short or long) miniseries in the future as topics grab my interest. If I end up wanting to tackle something more current, I'll probably have to create a separate logistical set-up (website, etc.), but I'll still announce it here & on the Facebook page. Take care! - Scott C.

Hi Scott! I just wanted to say how much I'm enjoying the Rediscovery angle of the podcast. The details of how we were able to rediscover early human history is absolutely fascinating!I cannot wait for the next R-episode!

“To the tumultuous throng which crowded under these
porticoes the solitude of death has succeeded.The silence of the tomb is substituted for the hum of polite places.” –
Count C.F.C deVolney, The Ruins, or
Meditations on the Revolutions of Empires “The elevation of
Odaenathus and Zenobia appeared to reflect new splendor on their country, and
Palmyra, for a while, stood forth the rival of Rome; but the competition was
fatal, and ages of prosperity were sacrificed to a moment of glory.” – Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire “When the sand seems to disappear, not beneath the verdure
of an oasis but beneath an accumulation of marble and worked stones, silence
falls among the travelers…it is then that a man, even the least civilized,
feels himself to be small and, despite himself, meditates on the presence of
that mighty ru…

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“In Asia, after the defeat of Demetrius at Gaza in Syria,
Seleucus, receiving from Ptolemy no more than eight hundred foot soldiers and
about two hundred horse, set out for Babylon.” – Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History, Book XIX